When less is more: Innovations for tracking progress toward global targets
Accountability and adaptive management of recent global agreements such as the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Climate Agreement, will in part rely on the ability to track progress toward the social and environmental targets they set. Current metrics and monitoring systems, however, are not...
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| author | Rosenstock, Todd S. Lamanna, Christine Chesterman, Sabrina Hammond, James Kadiyala, Suneetha Luedeling, Eike Shepherd, Keith D. DeRenzi, Brian Wijk, Mark T. van |
| author_browse | Chesterman, Sabrina DeRenzi, Brian Hammond, James Kadiyala, Suneetha Lamanna, Christine Luedeling, Eike Rosenstock, Todd S. Shepherd, Keith D. Wijk, Mark T. van |
| author_facet | Rosenstock, Todd S. Lamanna, Christine Chesterman, Sabrina Hammond, James Kadiyala, Suneetha Luedeling, Eike Shepherd, Keith D. DeRenzi, Brian Wijk, Mark T. van |
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| description | Accountability and adaptive management of recent global agreements such as the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Climate Agreement, will in part rely on the ability to track progress toward the social and environmental targets they set. Current metrics and monitoring systems, however, are not yet up to the task. We argue that there is an imperative to consider principles of coherence (what to measure), standardization (how to measure) and decision-relevance (why to measure) when designing monitoring schemes if they are to be practical and useful. New approaches that have the potential to match the necessary scale of monitoring, with sufficient accuracy and at reasonable cost, are emerging; although, they represent a significant departure from the historical norm in some cases. Iterative review and adaptation of analytical approaches and available technology will certainly be needed to continuously design ways to best track our progress. |
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| spelling | CGSpace804252024-05-01T08:20:06Z When less is more: Innovations for tracking progress toward global targets Rosenstock, Todd S. Lamanna, Christine Chesterman, Sabrina Hammond, James Kadiyala, Suneetha Luedeling, Eike Shepherd, Keith D. DeRenzi, Brian Wijk, Mark T. van climate change water Accountability and adaptive management of recent global agreements such as the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Climate Agreement, will in part rely on the ability to track progress toward the social and environmental targets they set. Current metrics and monitoring systems, however, are not yet up to the task. We argue that there is an imperative to consider principles of coherence (what to measure), standardization (how to measure) and decision-relevance (why to measure) when designing monitoring schemes if they are to be practical and useful. New approaches that have the potential to match the necessary scale of monitoring, with sufficient accuracy and at reasonable cost, are emerging; although, they represent a significant departure from the historical norm in some cases. Iterative review and adaptation of analytical approaches and available technology will certainly be needed to continuously design ways to best track our progress. 2017-06 2017-03-20T08:29:23Z 2017-03-20T08:29:23Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/80425 en Open Access Elsevier Rosenstock, T.S., Lamanna, C., Chesterman, S., Hammond, J., Kadiyala, S., Luedeling, E., Shepherd, K., DeRenzi, B. and Wijk, M.T. van. 2017. When less is more: Innovations for tracking progress toward global targets. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 26-27:54–61. |
| spellingShingle | climate change water Rosenstock, Todd S. Lamanna, Christine Chesterman, Sabrina Hammond, James Kadiyala, Suneetha Luedeling, Eike Shepherd, Keith D. DeRenzi, Brian Wijk, Mark T. van When less is more: Innovations for tracking progress toward global targets |
| title | When less is more: Innovations for tracking progress toward global targets |
| title_full | When less is more: Innovations for tracking progress toward global targets |
| title_fullStr | When less is more: Innovations for tracking progress toward global targets |
| title_full_unstemmed | When less is more: Innovations for tracking progress toward global targets |
| title_short | When less is more: Innovations for tracking progress toward global targets |
| title_sort | when less is more innovations for tracking progress toward global targets |
| topic | climate change water |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/80425 |
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